Data Platform Engineering Manager - Lead Snowflake & Impact

korecv; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Barista coffee

Lunch subsidies

Learning allowance

Parental leave policy

Job summary

Funding Circle is hiring a Data Platform Engineering Manager in London, within the Data Platform Engineering team under Tech and Data. You will lead the data platform engineers, drive a Snowflake-based migration, and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes with a product-focused mindset.

You’ll recruit, mentor, and develop engineers, align with stakeholders, and champion self-service tooling to empower domain teams across the organization.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of modern data platform architectures (Snowflake, data mesh/lakehouse, dbt, Airflow, streaming vs. batch pipelines, data contracts).
• Proven experience managing and leading high-performing data engineering teams in a product-driven environment.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of data platform engineers; oversee recruitment and performance management.
• Plan, execute, and deliver projects within the data platform roadmap; manage backlog and prioritise tasks.
• Define and track KPIs for platform health and delivery; communicate progress to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Data platform architectures

Team leadership

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Funding Circle is hiring a Data Platform Engineering Manager in London, within the Data Platform Engineering team under Tech and Data. You will lead the data platform engineers, drive a Snowflake-based migration, and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes with a product-focused mindset.

You’ll recruit, mentor, and develop engineers, align with stakeholders, and champion self-service tooling to empower domain teams across the organization.